The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . ^ i 1702] Queen Annesometimes Counsel takes! 171 Her connection, in fact, with the subject of these pagesmay be summed up in the well-known lines of the thirdcanto of Popes Rape of the Lock :— Close by those meads, for ever crowned with flowers,Where Thames with pride surveys his rising towers,There stands a structure of majestic frameWhich from the neighbring Hampton takes its Britains statesmen oft the fall foredoomOf foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ;Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms ob

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The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . ^ i 1702] Queen Annesometimes Counsel takes! 171 Her connection, in fact, with the subject of these pagesmay be summed up in the well-known lines of the thirdcanto of Popes Rape of the Lock :— Close by those meads, for ever crowned with flowers,Where Thames with pride surveys his rising towers,There stands a structure of majestic frameWhich from the neighbring Hampton takes its Britains statesmen oft the fall foredoomOf foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ;Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey,Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea. The phrase, *dost sometimes counsel take, proves tohave a more definite signification and appropriateness, thanwould be supposed by the casual reader, for Queen Anne,especially in the first few years of her reign, used frequentlyto come over to Hampton Court, while staying at WindsorCastle, for the purpose of presiding over meetings of herPrivy Council, which were held in the Cartoon Gallery

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